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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

"I took my last breath on the side of a mountain one summer's day in Afghanistan when my Army helicopter was shot out of the sky. My name, along with 18 other Americans, joined a growing list of casualties from an escalating war on terror.

As my wife sat alone in our bedroom, the clock ticked a somber drumbeat. Though she'd learned of the crash through the news, the Army had yet to officially notify her that I'd given the last full measure of devotion. For two days she listened to that clock and believed I'd never come home.

Half a world away, however, I was very much alive. The Army had gotten it wrong. The man who would take my place at the last minute felt it was his duty, not mine, to step into harm's way. And through his sacrifice, he'd given me a second chance at life.

Now when my boys ask me 'Daddy, will you go to war again?' I answer, 'Yes.' I'll fight to make every day count. I'll fight to see them grow up and develop into Godly young men of character. I'll fight for my marriage. Because when you're living on borrowed time, redemption always feels right around the corner." —Matt Brady (MBA 2016)

Each year we ask MBA students a question taken from the last lines of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Mary Oliver. Read more: http://hbs.me/2cZVFJ4﻿

Dean Nitin Nohria welcomed more than 900 new MBA students to Harvard Business School this week. They moved into their dorms, participated in START programming, read their first cases, met their section mates, and attended their first classes. Welcome to the MBA Class of 2018!﻿

"In case you aren’t yet familiar with HBS cases, they are the 10-30 page packets upon which almost every class discussion is based. Cases can be and are written on many topics: a person, a company, a country, an event. They are written by HBS professors, research associates, and sometimes students."﻿

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

"I was not surprised by my mother's soft, patient knock at 4 AM to tell me that my father had died. It was a moment I had been anticipating each day for five years after his Stage IV cancer diagnosis, and with even more certainty after he had fallen into a coma four days before. My father, once tall and strong, had finally succumbed to the disease he had so desperately tried to defeat.

I had years to wonder how I would feel at this moment. Discouraged? Emboldened? Relieved? Instead, I felt nothing. I searched hopelessly for meaning in the wake of his death.

Years later, I found myself assigned to a healthcare project at work. Initially, I was indifferent – healthcare seemed messy, dull, obstinate. Yet as I immersed myself in the healthcare ecosystem, memories emerged that I had locked away: my mother's countless, emotional phone calls with the insurance company; the inescapable cycle of hope and despair as we rotated through clinical trials; the hospital's inability to have an honest conversation with us about how my father wanted to live and to die.

I could have found pain. Instead, I finally found purpose.

Healthcare faces an uncertain future, and I don't yet know what role I will play. But I will be there, fighting for healthcare in the same way that my father fought for his life: with courage, tenacity, and unrelenting optimism." —Elizabeth Bruyere (MBA 2016)

Each year we ask MBA students a question taken from the last lines of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Mary Oliver. Read more: http://hbs.me/2cF2wY4﻿

Before "House of Cards” was an internationally acclaimed hit series, it was a total shot in the dark. Luckily for the small production company behind it, Netflix saw it as a shot worth taking.

Professor Anita Elberse discusses how the Emmy-winning show flipped the script on standard television series production, brought binge-watching into the mainstream, and ushered in a whole new era of must-see programming: http://hbs.me/2cqtTIg﻿

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

"During my darkest days in college I could only look inward, brooding over my own black-and-white world of mental pain and self-pity, oblivious to the vibrant life around me. My external circumstances were enviable – a privileged existence with a loving family, loyal friends, and all the advantages of an excellent education in a free society. Yet I couldn't see those things through the suffocating shadow of severe depression.

One evening, while waiting to meet someone for dinner, I noticed an old friend frantically flipping through the pages of his notebook with the haunted expression of a man at the end of his rope. He was behind in his work, despondent and adrift, but I told him I couldn't chat. I had a dinner to attend and my own issues to deal with. "We'll speak soon," I assured him, but we never did. My friend took his life shortly thereafter. Even then, my depression was so deep that I only felt the faintest tinge of loss.

If Iʼd been looking outward, his plight would have been apparent. Instead I was too preoccupied by my own troubles to assist my friend with his. I am better now but will always look out for others who are struggling because sometimes we need a reminder that life is worth living, through good times and bad." —John Regan (MBA 2016)

Each year we ask MBA students a question taken from the last lines of a poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Mary Oliver. Read more: http://hbs.me/2cchiIt﻿